Writing Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.”
– Larry David

“I’m writing a poem right now about a nose. I’ve always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it’s a ludicrous subject. That’s why, when I was younger, I was afraid of something that didn’t make a lot of sense. But now I’m not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn’t matter.”
– Maurice Sendak

“I feel like some of the best talent is on TV right now, with the writing, acting and great directors. I’ve also been looking for the consistency of work that TV provides for you. And, I always thought it would be really interesting to live with a character for months, if not years.”
– Christina Ricci

“The writing is important, but the way you say the line and the pause you give it, the facial expression – all of that is very important.”
– Arnold Schwarzenegger

“No, there is literally nothing on the business side that I wouldn’t sacrifice in a heartbeat to have an extra couple of hours’ writing. Nothing.”
– J. K. Rowling

“Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.”
– J. K. Rowling

“I loved writing for kids, I loved talking to children about what I’d written, I don’t want to leave that behind.”
– J. K. Rowling

“There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.”
– J. K. Rowling

“I’ve been writing my entire life, and I’ll always write.”
– J. K. Rowling

“I didn’t have any agenda or plan when I started writing stuff.”
– David Byrne

“Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.”
– Virginia Woolf

“I’m writing constantly about all my crazy experiences across the world, so I have a lot of music I’ve already written.”
– Kesha

“I’m always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.”
– Susan Orlean

“I teach a non-fiction writing class at New York University, and one of my great pleasures is deciding on the syllabus.”
– Susan Orlean

“Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience.”
– Susan Orlean

“Even after I’d published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.”
– Susan Orlean

“Writers like to write, and writing in different forms – short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention – all interest me.”
– Susan Orlean

“I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.”
– Susan Orlean

“I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.”
– James Herriot

“Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That’s like a sports thing, it’s not usually a comedy and writing thing.”
– Louis C. K.

“A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It’s a great, very smart way to make television. It’s worked for however long TV’s been around.”
– Louis C. K.

“I’ve tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I’m afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.”
– Ernest Hemingway

“Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.”
– Joseph Addison

“In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.”
– Doris Lessing

“I don’t know much about creative writing programs. But they’re not telling the truth if they don’t teach, one, that writing is hard work, and, two, that you have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.”
– Doris Lessing

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